0000024947 00000 n His manuscript in progress, "Black Rapture: A Poetics of the Sacred," is in the final stages of completion. Carters writings reflect the above-mentioned intellectual concerns and subject matters. The enthusiastic turnout of African-American voters on Barack Obama's behalf in the primaries and caucuses could backfire, leading to defections from some white supporters, according to a Duke University political scientist who studies race, politics and gender. Titled The Religion of Whiteness: An Apocalyptic Lyric (with Yale University Press), this book explores white identity not just, for example, with regard to Christian Nationalism or white evangelicalism, but regarding whiteness as such, right, left, and center as a form of religion. Carter, associate professor of theology and black church studies, and Lian, professor of world Christianity, were among the six scholars chosen by the Association of . Im a Professor of Religious Studies, English, and African American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. 2020 John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. Smith Warehouse, Bays 4 & 5 0000023001 00000 n "High prices reflect increased scarcity. Google. He is the editor ofReligion and the Future of Blackness(aspecial issue ofSouth Atlantic Quarterly, 2013) and presented the Warfield Lectures (a set of six lectures) at Princeton Theological Seminary (2016) under the title Dark Church: Experiments in Black Assembly. Religion and the Future of Blackness. (South Atlantic Quarterly, Fall 2013). 0000023237 00000 n Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. %PDF-1.3 % m#?-1XT5ubVVe5}4pgNsd.VrHM~'3x[oA)s;HMzL+=Uex_(k#Q'A&d9;=TnqbKxo)~V6V*F I:D'DQ2qw$j,?m4ksc%vkq:;1$;ki# b=vSPci7ffj5,6. J. Kameron Carter works in black studies (African American and African Diaspora studies), using theological and religious studies concepts, critical theory, and increasingly poetry in doing so. Teagarden designed her major to focus on human rights. J. Kameron Carter is professor of religious studies at Indiana University. 905 W. Main St. Ste 18-B 0 Durham, NC 27701 USA. For more, click here. Two Duke undergraduates, Kelly Teagarden '08 and Adam Nathan '10, will represent Duke tonight as part of ABC News Now presidential race election coverage. <<741905BDAF9FA24697A6B6B74A6E16C1>]/Prev 119438>> 0000011385 00000 n J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor of Theology, English, and Africana Studies at Duke University and Duke Divinity School. As Carter outlines, the black study of religion assembles an image of mattering that cannot be arrested by the intrinsic antiblackness that sustains the reign of the Human and inflictsunrelenting physical and symbolic violence on the planet and all of its existents. Denise Ferreira da Silva, author of Toward a Global Idea of Race. Paperback. Kameron Carter, Indiana University 2015 - 16 Henry Luce III Fellowship Project: Dark Church: A Poetics of Black Assembly 2015 Franklin Humanities Institute, Book Manuscript Workshop Award Project: God's Property: Blackness and the Problem of Sovereignty Summer 2012 Duke University Internal Candidate for NEH Summer Research Grant . 0000027591 00000 n Geoffrey Mock of University Communications is the editor of the 'News' edition. As a result, and with the legitimation of Christian theology, Christianity became the cultural property of the West, the religious ground of white supremacy and global hegemony. "The Democrats are focusing on the opportunity costs of staying, and the Republicans are focusing on the costs of leaving," says Peter Feaver, a political scientist at Duke who formerly served on the National Security Council in the Bush administration. 0000011614 00000 n Haynie is co-director of Duke's Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences. endstream endobj 27 0 obj <> endobj 28 0 obj <> endobj 29 0 obj <>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text]>> endobj 30 0 obj <> endobj 31 0 obj <> endobj 32 0 obj <> endobj 33 0 obj [/ICCBased 53 0 R] endobj 34 0 obj <>stream Articles are produced by staff and faculty across the university and health system to comprise a one-stop-shop for news from around Duke. "It's not part of his core campaign message.". EISSN 1527-8026. U~?PMRFA]X ut8J`c~eX,X2@ sX_=ppQqhiMYi9,,03MB_8d`Pr90 >Y8 Nathan is choosing interdisciplinary curriculum dealing with leaders and change in the developing world. I especially want to express my gratitude to Ken Wissoker, my editor at Duke. This practice of a sacral blackness I here think about under the rubric of black malpractice as a poetics of the sacred. Duke Today is produced jointly by University Communications and the Office of Communication Services (OCS). To subscribe to this journal visit the South Atlantic Quarterly page. Carter previously served as an associate professor of theology, English, and African American studies at Duke Divinity School. . J. Kameron Carter is a professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has additional appointments in the English and African American & African Diaspora Studies departments. He is the author of Race: A Theological Account. 0000023473 00000 n Encore Viewing: "Poetry & Publishing; Or, How to Launch a Poet," "2023 Juan E. Mndez Human Rights Book Award," and, "Common understandings of failuretend to give failure a positive spinsuch as claiming failure to be a necessa, Are you an aspiring poet, or a poetry fan? Neither a simple reiteration of Black Theology nor another expression of the new theological orthodoxies, this groundbreaking book will be a major contribution to contemporary Christian theology, with ramifications in other areas of the humanities. "What we're witnessing is a generation that's lived into the benefits of the work carried out by the previous generation, carrying the mantle forward," Carter says. Peter Feaver sees the politics of the Iraq war as being a major division in the general election. 0000026215 00000 n Duke University Press. My name is J. Kameron Carter. Carter's claim is that Christian theology, and the signal transformation it (along with Christianity) underwent, is at the heart of these legacies. He is author of Race: A Theological Account (2008). However, a Divinity School professor says part of the drama is a generational difference among African-American leaders. but he leaves space that you can actually think . ISSN 0038-2876. trailer 0000024190 00000 n 0000001264 00000 n Against the backdrop of the summer 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, this article thinks about that event as indexing a crisis of US political theology, indeed, as a volatile flashpoint wherein the sacred comes into view otherwise. Prof. J. Kameron Carter is Assoc. Prof. Carter teaches courses in both theology and black church studies. A major work on African-American theology $ 54.00. E2IB W/(Z/BVL WKbZVmyL@~|n$3Pa ZB:6/]$O Hes also finalizing the manuscript of a book titled Black Rapture: An Ante-American Poetics. The U.S. has huge corporate tax giveaways built into our tax codes, in the form of oil depletion allowances and accelerated depreciation on capital stock in drilling and exploration. And lastly among his writing projects, Carter is in the final stages of completing another book project. Project start date: 1/2006 Funding awarded: $1,250 Driving his work are questions pertaining to the theory and practice of blackness, with particular reference to black feminism and the sacred. That's a key question for the campaign, say Duke political scientists, and will continue to be important if he goes on to the general election. Phone:919.684.8873Email:humanities-writ-large@duke.edu, Address:102 Allen Building Request a desk or exam copy . This site uses cookies. Buy. Please try again. Durham, NC 27708. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches . He is author of Race: A Theological Account (2008). J. Kameron Carter is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington and is codirector of IU's Center for Religion and the Human. We welcome your comments and suggestions! It will have information about my journalistic writings, the forthcoming books, when and where Ill be doing public-speaking, and other good things. I also co-direct Indiana University's Center for Religion and the Human. hb```|_@ (q33?k3P D.|.SlWP1f-*x+}J,l8 - The Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences announced today that J. Kameron Carter, Ph.D., will be joining IU Bloomington as a professor of religious studies. 18-B; Durham, NC 27701; USA; Phone (888) 651-0122; International +1 (919) 688-5134; Contact Watch ABC News tonight and find out. The Franklin Humanities Institute and Duke University Libraries presented a Faculty Bookwatch panel on J. Kameron Carter's Race: A Theological Account (Oxford UP, 2008) on February 4, 2009. r)Ar MFIQN2#BREPv1A~F|g h?9#Xg3UF>mgqbJ53fH~DwWMf g K5 BOOl@3@EP%OT+v1~_# ?( CDxF({lXz4:*wzC E,H,O9b5zSS*OVxaVX`$Ow}2t7# What I study and think about is black social life as it intersects the sacred, as the deviant scene of alternative practices of the sacred. University of Virginia, If youd like to be notified when my website is live and when my new books become available, please signup for email notification and for my newsletter by clicking on the button below. Black Studies/Religion & Philosophy/Poetry & Poetics. The Black Outdoors: Fred Moten and Saidiya Hartman in Conversation with J. 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In that transformation, Christian anti-Judaism biologized itself so as to racialize itself. 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He is the editor ofReligion and the Future of Blackness(aspecial issue ofSouth Atlantic Quarterly, 2013). These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to the present. J. KAMERON CARTER This essay is about identity and the place of religion and theology in how it is thought about and performed. 0000002042 00000 n Search for other works by this author on: You do not currently have access to this content. These are the legacies of colonialism and empire, political theories of the state, anthropological theories of the human, and philosophy itself, from the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to . 2 CVJ. 114 South Buchanan Boulevard Panelists included Elizabeth Clark (Religious Studies, Duke University), Mary McClintock Fulkerson (Theology, Duke Divinity School), Ken Surin (Literature, Duke University), and Maurice Wallace (English, Duke University). His work focuses on questions of Blackness, empire and ecology as matters of political theology, and the sacred. Durham, NC 27708Directions & Parking. Could not validate captcha. J. Kameron Carter, PhD Co-Director of the Center for Religion and the Human Professor of Religious Studies with appointments in the English, Gender Studies, the African American and African Diaspora Studies Departments Indiana University, Bloomington jkcarte@indiana.edu PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Jan. 2021 - Present For more from Jentleson's column, click here. But many also hope for the vision of reconciliation that Obama offers, Carter says. The news station asked two Duke students and two Indiana University students to participate in a question and answer session about young people's voting patterns in the two state primaries. Working as a theologian, he addresses the basic areas of Christian thought, especially attending to Christology (the 1990. Profiling a range of established and emerging scholars and thinkers in black (religious) studies, Religion and the Futures of Blackness offers essays that reimagine religion and the political beyond the dominant racialized conceptions of these terms and towards alternative worlds. Carters bookRace: A Theological Accountappeared in 2008 (New York: Oxford University Press). But many also hope for the vision of reconciliation that Obama offers, Carter says. Duke's Kerry Haynie says Obama may not be able to make the connection with the white working-class voters. In pursuing this research, Professor Carteron the one handexamines how Christian theological ideas, especially christological ideas (claims about the person and work of Jesus Christ) and notions of theological anthropology (the Christian construction of the human),have funded racial, gendered,sexual, colonial, and settler imaginaries, and how the secular only amplifies (notovercomes) modernitys theological protocols. Cirriculum Vitae J. Kameron Carter J. Kameron Carter, PhD Co-Director of the Center for Religion and the Human Professor of Religious Studies with appointments in the English, Gender Studies, . ISBN: 9780195152791. 0000000936 00000 n He says the more African-American support Democratic candidates such as Obama receive, the greater the risk of them losing white supporters. A series edited by J. Kameron Carter and Sarah Jane Cervenak. I write and think about religion and public life or the social ecology of religion. J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor of Theology, English, and Africana Studies at Duke University and Duke Divinity School. Also Available As: Ebook. And rightly so. Price: $16.00. He teaches courses at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels in black studies and/as critical theory; continental philosophy and aesthetics; religion, modernity, and the secular; political theology; hip hop and religion; black feminism and religion; theories of religion; theory of the sacred; modern theology; race and mysticism; Afro-futurism and religion; black experimental writing and poetics; black nature or eco-poetry; African American literature and religion. Jewish flesh is most authentically itself when it welcomes the gentile. So -- to all of you wanting to know how the state is going to support your addiction to driving inefficient, polluting moving mountains of iron and plastic: Get over it. J. Kameron Carter Associate Professor in Theology and Black Church Studies, Divinity School -- Duke University HWL Affiliation: Steering Committee J. Kameron Carter works in black studies (African American and African Diaspora studies), using theological and religious studies concepts, critical theory, and increasingly poetry in doing so. . In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. Explore how climate education spans disciplines and departments across Duke. Among the interlocutors are Georges Bataille, Nathaniel Mackey, Dawn Lundy Martin, Fred Moten, Cedric Robinson, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Sylvia Wynter. J. Kameron Carter Race & Religion || Scholar & Writer I've just finished a 17 year stretch of teaching at Duke University as Associate Professor of Theology, English and Africana Studies in the Divinity School with appointments in the English Department and the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department. Driving his work are questions . Jennings and Carter both insist that bodies matterand in a particularly Jewish-Christian way. Campus Box 90403 But I'm also opposed, for the same reasons, to subsidies that keep gas prices artificially low, and enable behavior we abhor. "I don't think she's going to do that. USDA Photo 20160821-FS-LSC-18 by Lance Cheung, 2016. [auZu\l/C Munger is running for governor this year as the Libertarian Party candidate. My next book, The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song, is presently in production and scheduled for publication in 2023 (Duke University Press, forthcoming). In Race: A Theological Account, J. Kameron Carter meditates on the multiple legacies implicated in the production of a racialized world and that still mark how we function in it and think about ourselves. 0000021482 00000 n J. Kameron Carter is Associate Professor of Theology, English, and African American Studies at Duke Divinity School. J Kameron Carter is on Facebook. By continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to, Being Ocean as Praxis: Depth Humanisms and Dark Sciences, Teresa de Jess: The Contemplative in Action, American Politics in the Era of Zombie Neoliberalism, I Can Believe Breaking the Circuits of Interpellation in von Triers Breaking the Waves, The Royal Remains The Peoples Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty, Come on Kid, Lets Go Get the Thing The Sociogenic Principle and the Being of Being Black/Human. S`7@!7B/0[Rq n5 }U2O=4xG@~i @:}g#}/{0Ilmb}$_b vTwRD>r:1j[#>YPV~+4J "I don't know how he does that," Haynie told The Fayetteville Observer. I purse this subject through a theologically informed reading. My website (where youre at right now) is being rebuilt. However, political scientist Paula McClain says that Obama doesn't have to win a majority of white voters to win the state. Professor Carter's bookRace: A Theological Accountappeared in 2008 (New York: Oxford UP). Sarah Jane Cervenak . 0000026845 00000 n Nothing, says Michael Munger, chair of the Department of Political Science. The Duke Vigil was a silent demonstration at Duke University, April 5-11, 1968, following the assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Nowhere. Duke University Date:_____ Approved: _____ Nathaniel Mackey, Chair _____ Frederick Moten _____ Priscilla Wald _____ J. Kameron Carter An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English in the Graduate School of Duke University 2017 J. Kameron Carter is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington and is codirector of IUs Center for Religion and the Human. 0000022681 00000 n Several Duke faculty members said Sen. Obama was hurt politically by both the comments about the United States made by his former pastor and Wright's efforts last week to defend those comments. We need to shift from a military to a diplomatic surge," Jentleson wrote in a column in The News and Observer. Up to 1,400 students slept on . J. Kameron Carter Search for other works by this author on: This Site. J. Kameron Carter. %%EOF Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. He is the author of Race: A Theological Account. And thousands of our young men and women are fighting and dying in a war in a region whose only strategic significance is its hold on our oil supply. "They speak to the issues of his viability and electability.". Temple University, He cites research showing that whites, especially low-income whites, are often less likely to vote for a Democratic candidate if he or she is identified with black voters. Students joined community members and faculty in discussing gun violence. Dr. 7|-uiA:uu$qq8xC!A~HhKfwcG"?n2?piz\$$N sNZh+r+"S|?OGg He explores these matters with the resources of black critical theory, which is simply to say critical theory, combined with theories of the sacred and languages drawn from the domains of religion, theology, and philosophy. If youd like to contact me for comment on news stories or public-speaking, please reach out through the Contact Me button below. All three of the major parties' presidential candidates are looking at policies that could cap greenhouse emissions. Duke Today is produced jointly by University Communications and the Office of Communication Services (OCS). The Black Outdoors: Humanities Futures After Property and Possession. With Cervenak, hes the editor of a Duke University Press book series, The Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study. I am the author of Race: A Theological Account (Oxford UP, 2008). In fact, there is nothing anyone should do.". Please check your email address / username and password and try again. It was Christ's unique human-divine personage that integrated gentiles into Israel's covenant life with God. All rights reserved. Dallas Theological Seminary, "[Hillary Clinton is] doing better among the groups that she and her husband appealed best to," Rohde told Bloomberg News. Social Text 1 June 2019; 37 (2): 67107. xref Indiana University Bloomington Duke University Press for helping to make this book a reality. According to Haynie, two historical patterns illustrate how and why race matters in the 2008 presidential election. d\)[ 2[ Z)Qzi= ONpW2R-hW>#BX[3A~g vKvK$rRE}i@HAEd${xRT43K:mzVTH=N6K3:p= N#~XE 97AuJ%g H 0000001637 00000 n You've been superb He works in African diaspora studies using theological and religious studies concepts, philosophy and aesthetics, and literatures and poetries of the black diaspora in doing so. Close navigation menu. His interventions in this ambitious, rich, and imaginative book have the power to change the study of religion as a whole and in tremendously salutary, necessary ways. Amy Hollywood, author of Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion, The Anarchy of Black Religion is a pivotal contribution to fostering an imagination other than the one that has been furthered in the age of modernity. Lastly . BX:\]QBi#j6?Y,+,6\\s}Zs}'`Z+L! 0000020628 00000 n The racial imagination is thus a particular kind of theological problem. On the other hand, hestudies those aesthetic, literary, and philosophical expressions that reveal blackness as nonexclusionary Otherwise Life--Life that unsettles modernitys theological constitution, Life that moves "paratheologically"both withinmodernity's theo-political constraintsand yet wanders out from and fugitively to the side of those constraints, Life in its breaks, Life that is the outside within, the open. Duke University, The Divinity School, the Graduate Faculty of Religion, and the English Department 2008 - 2016 Associate Professor Email. Associate Professor of Theology at Duke University Durham, North Carolina, United States. J. Kameron Carter Professor, Religious Studies Co-Director, Center for Religion and the Human jkcarte@indiana.edu SY 329 Office Hours Education Ph.D., University of Virginia, 2001 M.Th., Dallas Theological Seminary, 1995 B.A., Temple University, 1990 Resume/CV About J. Kameron Carter In this Issue. 0000020852 00000 n Haynie says despite campaigning on several working-class issues, Obama has not made it a central part of his effort. It would mean a significant change in how the state produces energy, but it would also mean more investment in cleaner technologies, he says. Copy and paste the URL below to share this page. Both students are Program II majors. 905 W. Main St. Ste 18-B Durham, NC 27701 USA. Here the sacred figures as the incalculable whose history is that of a something else, somewhere else. But this is North Carolina, so Sen. Obama's race will be a factor for some individuals who are voting.". Driving his work are questions pertaining to the theory and practice of blackness, indeed, of blackness as an alternate "pedagogy of the sacred" that the black church (at its best) expresses. The next president, he says, will have to turn to diplomacy to build a more solid foundation for rebuilding Iraqi society. We need to react quickly, not slow things down by forcing prices downward. He hopes to continue using these techniques and expand their use in future classes. So, please stay tuned. Duke University Press 905 W. Main St. Ste. 0000049817 00000 n 2001, M.Th., 2?"[|0c,w=)nEF7P1EH@wG;vG+# 0000028235 00000 n I also co-direct Indiana Universitys Center for Religion and the Human. View J. Kameron Carter's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. I've just finished a 17 year stretch of teaching at Duke University as Associate Professor of Theology, English and Africana Studies in the Divinity School with appointments in the English Department and the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Department. As these appointments suggest, I teach in religious and theological studies by way of what some might call critical race studies but that I call black studies. Indiana University, Mary Jo Weaver Undergraduate Scholarship Program, Ph.D., Nathan, who is from New Jersey, is president of Duke Students for Hillary. My first book is titled Race: A Theological Account (New York: Oxford UP, 2008). To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider. Duke Divinity School Professors J. Kameron Carter and Xi Lian have been named Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2015-16.The two were selected for a year-long fellowship to conduct creative and innovative theological research. The interviews are scheduled to be aired Tuesday between 8:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. J. Kameron Carter; Black Malpractice (A Poetics of the Sacred). 0000021253 00000 n